American Women — Reproductive rights

  • Indians and medicine : sterilization and genocide / Dr. Connie Uri ; interviewed by Jim Berland.

    Connie Uri, MD, a Native American doctor, discusses the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ sterilization policy in Oklahoma with KPFK’s Jim Berland. Uri describes the American government’s forcible sterilization of Native American women and reports on her visit of Claremore Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma, where she discovered that over one hundred Native women who were…

  • Human experimentation / Marcia Greenberg ; interviewed by David Selvin.

    Marcia Greenberg, a Washington, D.C. lawyer, testified recently before a Senate sub-committee that she had interviewed women in Tennessee who were being given an experimental contraceptive injection, without being told that the drug might cause dangerous side-effects. The drug in question is Depo-Provera. Greenberg discusses how physicians in Tennessee were prescribing the drug under their…

  • Feminist forum : women’s national abortion action coalition / Barbara Roberts ; interviewed by Carol Burris.

    Carol Burris interviews Barbara Roberts, M.D. on the subject of abortion. Dr. Roberts is the National Coordinator of the Women’s Abortion Action Coalition. Discussion of abortion, abortion law, and the struggle for a more liberal perspective. This program was produced by WETA-FM, Pacifica Affiliate in Washington, D.C.

  • Six experiences of unwanted pregnancy

    This program was originally produced in October 1971 for “Unlearning to not speak” by Lois Hansen of the KPFA Women. It begins with a short play by Myrna Lamb, “What have you done for me lately?” about a man’s pregnancy, induced by a female doctor who had been forced to bear that man’s child 19…

  • Pro-life council / produced by Portia Shapiro and Fran Watkins.

    The Pro-Life Council, an umbrella organization of anti-abortion groups in California, held a press conference on October 12th, 1971 in San Francisco outlining the group’s anti-abortion position and action plans. Two members of the Pro-Life Council, Dr. Frank Filice, a biologist at the University of San Francisco, and Marie de Pizzol appeared a week later…

  • Everything you’ve always wanted to know about voluntary sterilization, but were afraid to ask / produced by Fred Flaxman.

    People interviewed for this documentary include gynecologists, urologists, men and women who have been sterilized, clergymen, lawyers, and representatives of organizations favoring and opposing voluntary sterilization. Written and produced by Fred Flaxman. Interviews and editing by David Allen. Narrator is Tony Riggs. Includes Arthur Godfrey and Robert Packwood. A production of WETA-FM, Arlington, VA.

  • Abortion : is it murder or a woman’s right?

    Panel discussion with: Walter Trinkaus, professor at Loyola University, and President of the Right to Life League; Lana Clarke Phelan, co-author of the Abortion Handbook, and Western Regional Director of Women’s National Organization (NOW); and Rev. J. Hugh Anwyl, minister of the United Church of Christ, and director of Clergy Counseling Service for Problem Pregnancies.…

  • Sex without babies (Episode 4)

    Dr. H. Curtis Wood, medical consultant of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, and author of “Sex without babies” meets with panelists Peggy Still, executive director of Planned Parenthood, Los Angeles; Helen Colton, director of the Family Forum; and Dr. Joseph Still, physician and scientist in the area of personal preventative medicine. Dr. Wood discusses the…

  • Abortion : what now? / produced by Bob Kuttner and Nanette Rainone.

    Examination of New York’s liberal abortion laws which went into effect on July 1, 1970. This program asks whether women are better off now under the new laws, whether poor people can now get abortions in public facilities, and what health institutions are doing to prepare for the results of the new law. Includes interviews…

  • What every woman should know about abortion / Dr. Robert E. Hall ; interviewed by Mary Orovan

    Dr. Robert E. Hall, President of the Association for the Study of Abortion discusses his activities. Hall is also a practicing obstetrician, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia Medical Center, and is an activist for abortion reform. Mary Orovan interviews Dr. Hall on what women can do if faced with an unwanted…